My Garden

I love my Garden, dont you think that when you are in the garden you drift away and can be anywhere? I doesnt matter if you have a city garden or a country cottage your garden can be your sanctuary. I like the country cottage type gardens that you see on paintings in very nice antique shops, roses climbing over the arch and foxgloves swaying in the breeze with a rickey garden fence just waiting to welcome you. One day I know that I will own such a house but until that day I have may garden and make it my own.

One of the things that we have i our small garden is a little vegetable patch. Last year we had great success growing from it and hopefully this year will be the same. In this corner you can see tiny white turnips growing and purple sprouting brocoli. In the back you can just see the beans and the frame.

These are our peas, they are only small yet but hopefully they will grow. I think that we are a bit cooler up in the North than our Southern friends so it may take a little longer.

We also have some strawberrys growing at the front of the house in the glass porch where they get full sunshine and the glass makes it very warm in there. This was tonights supper and they tasted the absolute BEST EVER.... So yummy.

Here is my Strawberry Tea set waiting to be used. The plate is large and holds lots of lovely ripe strawberrys whilst the jug and pot holds your cream and sugar. I dont think that we will get enough strawberrys for filling up this dish but once the pick your own opens I will be there in a flash. The strawberrys you can see here we kindly sent to me by Summer by the Sea in a giveaway so they will have to do until the real strawberrys are ready. Yum Yum !!

Beautiful

BEAUTIFUL

The flowers from the clematis growing in the garden.

Soon to be in the garden.

Just a quick update on our lovely goodies growing in the porch. The beans and peas are ready to put out into the garden and the tomatoes and strawberrys are going to stay in the porch away from slugs and snails.

I cant wait for these to ripen. Last year all of our strawberrys were eaten, we think by a mouse in the garden.

All our vegetables are grown without the use of any nasties.

Home Grown

We have been busy with planting this last few days, we have a porch on the front of the house which gets alot of sun, this warms it up to a nice temperature so we can use it to bring plants on before transfering them to the vegetable patch at the back of the house. We have planted 5 Tomato plants,

Marigolds as they apparently help with whitefly, they either repell them or the flies are more attracted to the flowers and will leave the vegetables alone. I will let you know, last year we had lots of whitefly so should hopefully not have so much of a problem. You cant see them all but there are, Peas, Coriander, Blackberrys, Courgettes, Beans, Cucumber, Peppers, Chilli Peppers, White Turnips and

Strawberrys

Here is a shot which shows a little more but not everything would fit in.
My Hubby bought me a Blackberry bush for the back garden, last year we picked loads of berrys when we went to the lake district but he stole them all to make Blackberry Wine. He is making up for it by buying me my own, we wot really get anything this year I guess but perhaps next. Hope you are all having wonderful weather. Pop by Barbara at Warm Woolen Mittens She is also posting everyday for this month, her blog is full of Wonderful pictures of the Scotish Countryside and she is a very talented lady with the sewing machine.

Strawberrys and Tomatos

When you come in or out of our house you have to go through a porch and this is the greeting that meets you every day, fresh home grown soon to be strawberrys and tomato plants. i love strawberrys but just for the record hate nasty horrible fresh tomato.. I love sun dried tomato or sauces with tomato but cant bear fresh tomato YUK !!!